Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-05 | Page 13 | Grab of Cable Threatens Breach

j t Aff Of CADLE I J r M Ir r i I T AiN 1 9 AC l' l li i i II r Ref Refusal sal of Europe i to Share 6 re r J German Spoils Arouses e x I J Ire j 1 W WASHINGTON I r. r ON G-ON D De Dec ec 4 4 By Ui iver Sai 1 Service A e A serious rift which i J to to develop into an all open L 4 t br rach etch has arisen between this courtl coun- coun l I f tt t try and nd her former allies over the def- def 4 d ih Jt final refusal by Great Brits Brit Brit- It s q C F w eland nd permit the tho m S o 0 participate even evell in the 11 8 st J in any of the ben bene four great cable systems t jd l rom Germany during the war wart ware r t h. h UnIted V United States it was learned f t t did r did sot not insist that one of the thes s s shout d to her but Id d have been reo been satisfied with fre free led cable communication eXi i t J it exist the war Every que tl jeven v of f such a mild arid and rea rea- has been resolutely res re- re s ted international I l o t rence enc in session here for forr r Uie cP pa t i months is about to adt ad ad- t jog t tho the most remote favorable favor favor- 1 Jo aWe able cr r far as A America erica is s conr con- con r r u I f MEET MONDAY A firl ir l m meeting will be held on Mon Mon- not notI ij Immaterial I concessIons are l I anode e to tb the to-the the United States at that inte e H stat statement ment setting out th selfishness of of it Iniquitous England rance fd Japan will be issued by byI I t i Js government J Furthermore as its the tl United States iu in physical possession of till nil cables J y In In ha three mile limit at New 1 ork rIt Immediate steps in retaliation it w yeas s stated d today toda are are being actively 5 o considered I J 6 T The e seriousness seriousness seriousness' of the situation can I be realized d only it is made clear ear i that x every cable able v Ual al to lo American II foreign c at the pros pros- rent in inn the h hands h her business time f r W rivals who are free freo divert or even stop stogy every commercial J even very every message H w sent abroad 11 Of the the four cable systems In s V the two most Important link jj America and Europe acT the north northy y Atlantic One o of them running from froma a Emden Germany to New York via the Azores was was cut cut in two places by the 1 British onO end towed into Penzance 2 and the other into H not only i eliminating Germany but bu the United J h States Stages as well f I CUT CABLE I M III The other other cable was was' cut cut by the French wh l towed wed one one end end into Brest v t the lf other othe end still terminates In New th war warthe the American M terminal of 3 both oth cables cable were operated I J-by J bY the American commercial Cable p company which had a contract for forty forty forty for- for ty years In grabbing the one cable France abrogated this contract and andL L transferred operation to the the French Cable company She now refuses to restore the American contract contract- rights J If the British and French succeed su In InI Ins i I s holding these cables the United States fit tt can conduct business with Germany Austria Hungary Denmark Sweden Holland and amI Norway only over lines 2 II controlled by her competitors c As Great Britain has already diverted di- di business from American pro pro- IA jj pro pro- caters to of her own c country by r openly stealing messages the result of II i future English control is only too evident evident evi- evi it dent pent to this government government e TI The situation in the Pacific where a aGerman cable connects the East German Dutch I Indies it 1 dies with the American Trans Pacific 5 4 c cable ble and China Is quite as serious 3 This T is cable touched at Yap in the Carolne Caro- Caro lne Islands ne' ne Islands which was as ori originally In in- in 0 tended tended-as tended as a the sole Am American rican aw award rd in fv f the he war the war wat but ut which was Wll diverted b by bt r i 2 Gr Great at Bruin in to her ally Japan J 6 JAPAN ARAN BUSY r s J S jap Japan n has seized the the cable at Yap I r Band and refuses to give it it vp Up Already adY x complaints arc are pouring in to the state J department t that at messages messages' ess directed 4 from the Fir Far East to American busi- busi I Je nesb houses shave have been held up by the I Japanese from two to three weel weeks s at i Yap ap a ai b finally forwarded 1 to Tokio i M I Itis IS how now contended by Japan that I w sh she colds all the former fonner German Par Pacific Pa- Pa J r It Islands in fee simple as us a conqueror con con- t qu under mandate and that that- 1 therefore she alone has jurisdiction I over t over the cables in that zope The fourth fourth cable cable ran from Germany German via the West the West Coast of Africa to toron Mon Monrovia Monrovia ron Mon ii rovia Liberia an American protectorate protector protector- ate thence to Pernambuco Brazil It Iti Itin is i is S in the hands 9 pr pf the British and French They were willing that the United 1 States es S should have this this' cable if she would sign off a all 1 claims to c control of ot the North Atlantic Atlantic- cable cables As the Monrovia is cable-is useless to us without a line from Africa to America and as like the Armenian ma mandate date nobody wants it ar anyhow how this offer was flatly flatly flatly flat flat- ly reject rejected d. d